Summary: Using Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) for local high availability within a data center and augmenting it with Database Mirroring (DBM) for disaster recovery has been a very popular HA+DR solution. With SQL Server 2012, this FCI+DBM solution can be replaced with a FCI+AG (Availability Groups) solution. This whitepaper describes how to migrate an existing FCI+DBM solution to a FCI+AG solution.